Preferred Name: Laurie

Last Name: Conner

Degree String (Type, Year): (MS '77)

Job Title: CEO

Company Name: The Detection Group, Inc.

Bio: Laurie C. Conner has lead a 30-year career in high technology companies, focusing on strategy, marketing, sales and business development. She is particularly experienced in bringing new technologies and concepts to market, and enjoys the challenges of entrepreneurship and growing businesses from the ground up. Currently Ms. Conner is President and CEO of The Detection Group, a venture-funded provider of wireless water leak detection and monitoring systems for commercial properties. She now finds herself in the middle of the 'Internet of Things' revolution. Previously, Ms. Conner was President of Gazebo Capital Management LLC, a financial technology and investment firm, a Global Vice President of Sales & Marketing for a division of New Focus, a leader in optical networking and photonics; Director of Corporate Marketing for Silicon Valley Group (now part of ASML), and Crystallume, where she helped establish the emerging synthetic CVD diamond coating industry. Raychem Corporation hired Ms. Conner in fie